Working life: unknown color photos of everyday life in the USSR 1950s
Semyon Osipovich Friedland was a Soviet photographer from Kiev. He was born in 1905 into a family of Jewish shoemakers. Originally Semyon Osipovich decided to pursue a career as a journalist, but soon left the profession due to the force at the time of censorship.
In 1932 he graduated from the Department of photography at the State Institute of cinematography (VGIK modern). In the 1950s he worked as chief editor of the famous "fire", one of the oldest weekly illustrated magazines, which to this day is being issued in Russia.
While Semyon Osipovich made a lot of photos that captured everyday life of ordinary people in the 1950s. These pictures is not only interesting from a historical point of view, because they allow your eyes to see the generation of our grandparents lived at the time.
Breakfast in a Ukrainian village.
Harvesting wheat on the farm, Ukraine.
Professor at the Moscow energy Institute.
Traditional dances in Kabardino-Balkaria.
An employee of the orphanage with pupils, Ukraine.
The young engineers on the construction site in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.
Pacific fleet sailor in the post.
Morning in one of the villages near the town of Velikie Luki.
Admiral Gorshkov in the form. Crimea, Sevastopol, 1954.
The harvest of wheat.
Working in the Kazan river port, 1950.
Collection of tomatoes, Moscow oblast, 1950.
Harvesting wheat in the Ukrainian kolkhoz, 1950.
Young people enjoy a vacation in the mountains near Kislovodsk, 1950.
The woman steering the ship on the Volga, Kazan, 1950.
Mine in Kostanay, Kazakhstan.
A sailor in the Baltic sea.
Time-consuming work in the Studio, Moscow, 1950.
Valya Borovkova, crane operator Kazan river port, 1950.
Ukrainian village, 1950.
Nizhniy Tagil, 1954.
Keywords: Russian Federation | History | The past | The Soviet Union | Life | Vintage | 50s | Photo | Colorful pictures | Vintage images | 1950s